Death, Mourning, and Burial : A Cross-Cultural Reader (Paperback, 2 ed)

Death and Anthropology: An Introduction

Antonius C. G. M. Robben

Part I      Conceptualizations of Death

1 A Contribution to the Study of the Collective Representation of Death

Robert Hertz

2 The Rites of Passage

Arnold van Gennep

3 Symbolic Immortality

Robert Jay Lifton and Eric Olson

4 Remembering as Cultural Process

Elizabeth Hallam and Jenny Hockey

5 Massive Violent Death and Contested National Mourning in Post‐Authoritarian Chile and Argentina: A Sociocultural Application of the Dual Process Model

Antonius C. G. M. Robben

Part II     Death, Dying, and Care

6 Magic, Science and Religion

Bronislaw Malinowski

7 Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande

E. E. Evans‐Pritchard

8 Living Cadavers and the Calculation of Death

Margaret Lock

9 All Eyes on Egypt: Islam and the Medical Use of Dead Bodies amidst Cairo’s Political Unrest

Sherine Hamdy

10 The Optimal Sacrifice: A Study of Voluntary Death among the Siberian Chukchi

Rane Willerslev

11 Love’s Labor Paid for: Gift and Commodity at the Threshold of Death

Ann Julienne Russ

Part III   Grief and Mourning

12 The Andaman Islanders

R. Radcliffe‐Brown

13 Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage

Renato Rosaldo

14 Death Without Weeping

Nancy  Scheper‐Hughes

15 Three Days for Weeping: Dreams, Emotions, and Death in the Peruvian Amazon

Glenn H. Shepard Jr.

16 The Expression of Grief in Monkeys, Apes, and Other Animals

Barbara J. King

Part IV   Mortuary Rituals and Epidemics

17 Hunting the Ancestors: Death and Alliance in Wari’ Cannibalism

Beth A. Conklin

18 State Terror in the Netherworld: Disappearance and Reburial in Argentina

Antonius C. G. M. Robben

19 Mourning Becomes Eclectic: Death of Communal Practice in a Greek Cemetery

Diane O’Rourke

20 ‘We Are Tired of Mourning!’The Economy of Death and Bereavement in a Time of AIDS

Liv Haram

Part V     Remembrance and Regeneration

21 Ancestors as Elders in Africa

Igor Kopytoff

22 The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Mapuche Shaman: Remembering, Disremembering, and the Willful Transformation of Memory

Ana Mariella Bacigalupo

23 The Ghosts of War and the Spirit of Cosmopolitanism

Heonik  Kwon

24 The Intimacy of Defeat: Exhumations in Contemporary Spain

Francisco Ferrándiz

Index